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Monthly Archives: July 2016

Our biggest adventure to date! Ryan and I have lived in our house for 11 years now. About half of the interior has been painted and almost none of the rooms have been decorated. Since we were spending this holiday at home with not a whole lot planned, we decided to paint and decorate the guest room. On closer inspection, this quickly turned into a larger project than expected.

Day 1: Christmas Day

Tape the moldings with blue painters tape

Realize that the drywall tape has separated from the walls in at least 2-3 wall/ceiling or wall/wall corners -> Trip to Home Depot for drywall tape, joint compound, and necessary tools

Spend a typical Jewish Christmas with Les and Steve – Catch the new Star Wars movie and enjoy some Chinese food for dinner

Holes in the ceiling

Day 2:

Pull down all the peeling dry wall tape

Sand away excess tape and joint compound

Find that there are large gaps (1/4″ to 1/2″) between the drywall at the corners of the room -> Trip to Home Depot for spackle

Rent The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Nicole’s choice) and eat leftovers for dinner

Day 3:

Fill in large gaps with spackle – Wait 12 hours for it to dry

Rent Antman (Ryan’s choice) and make mushroom barley soup for dinner

Filling in gaps with spackle

Day 4:

Sand spackle

Apply layer of joint compound, smooth drywall tape on top, apply a second layer of compound on top of drywall tape – Wait for it to dry

Rent The Woman in Gold (Nicole’s choice) and make vegan spinach and mushroom quiche for dinner (not bad, needs some work)

Day 5:

Sand joint compound

Apply a second layer of joint compound – Wait for it to dry

Ramen dinner out, followed by trip to Home Depot for paint

Sanding joint compound

Day 6:

Sand joint compound

Spend 2 hours trying to match the texture on the ceiling and walls – Finally give up and do the best we can

Paint the ceiling – Wait for it to dry

Vacuuming up the mess

Texturing experiments

Day 7: New Year’s Eve

Tape the ceiling and go over edge of tape with the ceiling paint (cool trick I learned to get nice clean paint lines between the ceiling and walls) – Wait for it to dry

Paint the walls -> Ryan makes a trip to Home Depot to get another gallon